The US crowdfunding platform uFundingPortal’s website has gone offline and has disappeared from the approved list of the US self-regulatory organization Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), reports Crowdfund Insider. uFundingPortal was a relatively new crowdfunding platform, which had a ...

Retail forex broker DM BZ WBK, part of Poland’s WBK Bank, said on Wednesday it has decided to withdraw from offering over-the-counter (OTC) forex and contracts for difference (CFDs) services. ...

It seems that Admiral Markets‘ saga with the online payment systems may not come to an end anytime soon with a new development almost every other week. Most recently the broker announced it is permanently canceling the option ...

The news of Donald Trump winning the 2016 US presidential elections triggered investor activity and resulted in a sharp growth in the trading volume of USD crosses and some other majors up to 10 times annual averages for ...

Alfa-Forex, a Cyprus-regulated forex brokerage of the Russian Alfa-Bank Group, announced it is launching the web version of the MetaTrader 5 platform, which is steadily gaining popularity since the introduction of the hedging option earlier this year. “The ...

The French National Assembly has passed the ban on the advertising of “highly speculative and risky financial contracts“. This includes binary options and some CFDs. The Sapin II bill, which mostly deals with transparency, combating of corruption and the modernization of ...

Financial software developer FX Blue has made available a separate installer for its QuickChannel developer library for the MetaTrader 5 (MT5) trading platform. Parallel, the developer has added alerts on drawdown to the Account Monitor application, according to ...

The Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, one of the projects of the Winklevoss twins, has launched in Japan and South Korea. This means registered customers from the two countries can buy and sell bitcoin and ether with/for US dollars or ...

R3, a consortium of more than 70 global financial institutions, said on Tuesday it will expand with its first dedicated distributed ledger technology (DLT)  centre of excellence in Asia. The R3 Asia Lab will be located in the ...